Elizabeth Hand's Mortal Love PDF

By Elizabeth Hand

ISBN-10: 1618730835

ISBN-13: 9781618730831

Swirling among eras and continents, Mortal Love is an extreme novel of unforgettable characters stuck in a whirlwind of artwork, love, and intrigue. Mercurial Larkin Meade could carry the most important to misplaced creative masterpieces, and to secrets and techniques too devastating to visualize. Is there an timeless second? An immortal muse? Is there ... an angel of dying?

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G On the religious value of food, cf. El iade, "Dimensions religieuses du renouvellernent cosmique," p. 27 3 . " Its purpose is to re-establish or strengthen the Earth for the following year or two years. Among some Yurok tribes the strengthening of the \Vorld is accomplished by ritually rebuild­ ing the steam cabin, a rite that is cosmogenic in structure and of which other examples will be given later. The es­ sential part of the ceremonial consists in long pilgrimages undertaken by the priest to all the sacred sites, that is, to the places where the Immortals performed certain acts.

The renewal consisted in a cult scenario the chief rite of which symbolized the reiteration of the cosmogony. The facts and their interpreta­ tion will be found in the copious specialized literature on the subject14 and in one chapter of The Myth of the Eternal Re­ turn ( pp. 5 1 ff. ) . However, we will repeat that in Mesopotamia the Creation of the Vvorld was ritually reiterated during the New Year festival ( akitu. ) A series of rites re-enacted the fight benveen Marduk and Tiamat (the Dragon symbolizing the primordial Ocean ) , the victory of the God, and his cos­ mogonic labors.

2 M. Eliade, "Dimensions religieuses du renouvellement cosmique," Eranos-fahrbuch ( Zurich, 1 960 ) , vol. XXVI I I , pp. 269 ff. a H. Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods ( Chicago, 1 948 ) , p. I SO. M YT H S A N D RITES OF R E N E\VAL On the one hand, the ceremonies of renewal become movabl�, break away from the rigid frame of the calendar ; on the other, the king becomes in a manner responsible for the sta­ bility, the fecundity, and the prosperity of the entire Cosmos. "4 Renewing the World It is easy to understand why the installation of a king re­ peated the cosmogony or took place at the New Year.

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